curriculum vitae personal education work experience

I enjoy analysis, design, model and application of high-quality new computing systems leveraged by innovative
idea of human beings via sensing, processing, acting and communication nature of computers.
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL
First Name and
Last Name:
Alper Kamil DEMİR
Phone
(Mobile):
+90 (536) 676 28 98
Email:
[email protected]
Nationality:
Turkish
Date of Birth:
01.10.1971
Marital Status:
Married
Military Status:
Completed (30.11.2003)
Academic
Research
Interests:
Computer Networks, Quality of Service (QoS), Real-time and Multimedia Communications, Cross-layer
Design, Internet Architecture and Protocols, Wireless Networks, Mobile Networks, Wireless Ad Hoc and
Sensor Networks, Participatory Sensing, Future Internet Architectures and Protocols, Content Centric
Networks, Internet of Things, Software Defined Networking, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems,
Information Retrieval and Extraction, Intelligent Search
EDUCATION
Degree
Year
University
Department
Doctorate
2006-2013
Kocaeli University
Kocaeli, Turkey
Electronics and Communications Engineering,
Institute of Science and Technology
Thesis Title: Development of a Quality of Service Provisioning
Cross Layer Protocol in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Master
1996-1998
University of Southern
California
Los Angeles, CA U.S.A.
Computer Science,
Faculty of Engineering
Bachelor
1988-1993
Hacettepe University
Ankara, Turkey
Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
High
School
1985-1988
Samandağ High School
Science - (High School Valedictorian with highest GPA and
honors)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Year
Work Place
Title
2013-
Adana Science and Technology University, Adana,
Turkey
Assistant Prof.
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Research and Educational Activities
2009-2013
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Huawei Telecommunications Inc., R&D Center
İstanbul, Turkey
Senior Software and Research Engineer
Role: Project Leader
Project Leader and Management of Intelligent Search (IS) Project: Development of Social, Intelligent, Mobile, Personal,
Experiential and Linguistic applications with Information Retrieval and Integration, Data Mining, Natural Language
Processing methods
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Project Leader and Management of Content Management System (CMS) Project: Development of Software Delivery
Platform (SDP) Media
Supported university research collaboration (Tubitak, San-Tez) of R&D Center
Supported technical interviews of Human Resources (HR) department recruitments
2001-2009
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(See Above)
1997-2001
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Senior Instructor
University of Southern California and Information
Science Institute
Los Angeles, CA U.S.A.
Research Assistant
(See Above)
Marmara University, Computer Engineering Dept.
İstanbul, Turkey
Teaching Assistant
Bilsar Software Inc.
İstanbul, Turkey
Summer Intern
Development of civil engineering and hospital support software in C++ programming language
1991-1991
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Kocaeli University, Computer Engineering Dept.
Kocaeli, Turkey
Assisted Operating Systems, Database Systems, Computer Organization, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) courses
Instructed Database and Linux courses
Administered department network workstations, modems, routers and switches
1992-1992
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Junior Officer of Army Information Center
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Software development of advanced reservation system for high performance graphical processing units (GPU) with Globus
Grid and Globus Advanced Reservation Architecture (GARA) tools, and with C/C++ programming languages (in the scope
of USC-ISI Globus Project)
Software development of QoS reservation system for X-Bone tool with ISI Int-Serv RSVP tool and C/C++ programming
language (in the scope of USC-ISI X-Bone Overlay Network Project)
Software development of time series data modeling and parsing system for neuro-physiological data with Informix
Datablade technology and C programming language (in the scope of USC Brain Project)
1993-1995
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Turkish Land Forces Logistics Command,
Army Information Center, Ankara Turkey
Development of Auxiliary Part Supply System software with Java and JSP on OC4J Application Server and Oracle 10g
Database
Reporting for Auxiliary Part Supply System with Crystal Reports
Documentation of Internet Security Protocols and Standards
2001-2002
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Senior Instructor
Instructed courses (Java Programming, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, Software Lab.,
Digital Communications, Probability and Statistics, Writing Techniques, English at Work)
Advised on Junior Project and Junior Graduation Project in the broad domain of Computer Networks, Operating Systems
and Enterprise Software Applications
Conducted adaptation of courses for transfer students
2002-2003
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Kocaeli University, Computer Engineering Dept.
Kocaeli, Turkey
NCR (AT&T Global Information Solutions)
İstanbul, Turkey
Summer Intern
Development of banking support software in client/server model and C++ programming language
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Highly experienced in Leadership, Project, Technology, Software, Test, Quality, Research and Development Management in an
international and multi-cultural environment
Foreign Language
English (Reading, Writing, Speaking: Very Good), ÜDS:88.75 (2005)
Personal Qualifications
Leadership and Management, Coordination, Team Player, Discipline, Effective
Communication, Problem Solving, Result Oriented,
Systems/Systematic/Analytical/Synthesis and Strategic Thinking, Big Picture and Details,
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Conflict Resolution, Prioritize, Organize and Organizational, Strategy and Planning,
Reporting, Development of Work Goals, Innovative, Meticulous, Flexible, Open Minded,
Willing to Change, Empathy, Tolerant, Motivated, Motivating, Passionate, Vision,
Determined, Energetic, Willing to Learn, Stress Management, Proactive, Customercentered Thinking, Interested in New Technologies
Operating Systems
Linux (Fedora, Red Hat, FreeBSD, openBSD, Slackware, Pardus, Ubuntu, Suse), Unix
(Sun Solaris, SunOS, DEC, Ultrix, HP_UX), Windows (Server 2003, Vista, NT, X)
Programming Languages,
Software Development
Environments and Tools
PLs (C/C++, Java (J2SE, J2EE, Junit, EJB, Spring MVC, Struts), Delphi, Pascal, Fortran,
Cobol, Ada, Lisp, Assembly, Perl, Matlab, PL/SQL) Web (HTML, JavaScript, CSS,
JQuery, JSP, Servlet, DWR, AJAX Technology, XML, JSON, CGI, HTMLunit), Web
Services (SOAP, XML/JSON/JAX-RPC, RESTful (RestEasy, JAX-RS, Apache CXF)),
ORM (Hibernate, DAS, JPA), Application Servers (Tomcat, JBoss, Resin, WebSphere,
OC4J), Semantic (SPARQL, OWL, JENA), Multimedia (Macromedia Director,
Authorwave, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Autodesk 3D Studio), Others (Nutch, Solr,
Stanford Pos Tagger, University of Sheffield GATE tool, Linked Open Data (LOD), JXTA,
Globus, X-Bone, NSL (neural net simulator), openGL, DirectX), Revision Control (CVS,
SVN, Git), Configuration Management (Make, Ant, Maven), Continuous Integration
(Hudson), IDE (JDeveloper, Eclipse, Emacs), Issue and Bug Tracking (Atlasian JIRA),
Performance (Jmeter), Monitoring (Zabbix, Nagios)
Software Management Systems
Oracle 11g, MicrosoftSQL Server, Informix, Illustra, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DGSQL, Progress, Clipper, dBase IV, FoxPro, NoSQL DB (ElesticSearch), In-memory DB
(ehCache)
Network Protocols and Tools
TCP/UDP/IP/ICMP, IPsec, HTTP, SMTP, DNS, Mobile IP, RTP, Potfix, openLDAP,
IntServ-RSVP, Diffserv-MPLS, NS2 Simulator, MBONE-PIM, VoIP/SIP, BGP-4, OSPF,
GSM, ATM, 802.11, 802.15.4
Software Development and Test
Processes
Agile, V-Model, Iterative, Spiral, Waterfall
CMMI, IPD-CMM
Project and Software
Management
Project (PMI-PMP) (Schedule, Scope, Risk, Stakeholder) (Initiate, Plan and Design,
Execute, Monitor and Control, Close), Quality (CMM/CMMI), People, Technology
AWARDS
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Team Advisor and 1st Winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 Software Design Project (L’orientalis)
http://www.chip.com.tr/haber/turkiye-nin-gururu-yazilim-projesi_6853.html
Competed in Paris, France in a World-wide Microsoft Imagine Cup organization
1997-2001
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Research Assistant Scholarship from University of Southern California
1996
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Scholarship to pursue Master degree in U.S.A. by Turkish Ministry of National Education
1988
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High School Valedictorian with highest GPA and Honors
2008
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